Current position: Senior Researcher/Director, Unilever Centre for Environmental Water Quality, Institute for Water Research
Qualifications: PhD (Water Resource Science), Rhodes University, MSc (Water Resource Science), Rhodes University, BSc (Hons) (Zoology), Delta State University
Email: n.odume@ru.ac.za Tel: +27 46 622 2428
Research Interest
Water is life and my passion for sustainable freshwater resource management is the ultimate driver of my research. Water resources are increasingly threatened by freshwater pollution, environmental change and increasing industrialization, leading to deteriorating water quality. Highly sensitive and integrative monitoring tools are therefore needed for sustainable watershed management. My focus has been on the development of integrative and multi-criteria tools for monitoring and managing water quality and assessing human impact on water resources.
My principal research interests include;
Most recent publications
Current Research funded projects
Project title |
Funding organisation |
Period |
Towards ecosystem functional and structural assessment for better decision making to enhance the delivery of ecosystem goods and services |
National Research Foundation (NRF) Water Research Commission (WRC) |
2014 – present |
The role of environmental ethics in water resource management in the context of social-ecological system |
Water Research Commission (WRC) |
April 2014 – present.
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Development and benchmarking of a decision support system for aquatic testing: technology transfer and implementation of the toxicity testing guideline/technology
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Water Research Commission (WRC) |
April 2015 – present |
An investigation on the potential use of macroinvertebrate trait-based approach in the sustainable management of riverine systems within an urbanized catchment, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe |
Carnegie-RISE (Regional Initiatives in Science and Education) Programme
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April 2015 – present |
The development of bio-assessment protocols for Nigerian streams by refining and modifying the South African Scoring System (SASS) |
Carnegie-RISE (Regional Initiatives in Science and Education) Programme
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February 2015 – present |
Water quality and biomonitoring for Richards Bay Mineral |
Richards Bay Mineral |
2013 - present |
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